A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has declared that the market for DVDs and Blu-ray is quickly declining, with the slack taken up by increasingly popular on-demand streaming services like Netflix which will also overtake cinema box office revenues in the coming years.

The study says that revenue from electronic home video (ie streaming and downloading films) will outstrip physical media in 2016, and that the market for physical media will drop from $12.2bn now to $8.7bn in 2018. They also predict that in 2017 electronic home video will overtake the traditional cinema as the biggest contributor to total film revenue in the US, reaching a total of $17bn the following year double the $8.5bn the sector currently generates.

Google is taking another step towards an internet that can stand up to snooping from the NSA. Today, the company released the source code for a new web browser plugin that encrypts your email messages before they’re sent across the net. Dubbed End-to-End, the plugin aims to prevent interlopers from reading messages even if they […]

Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, is embarking on "Turner 2020." As explained by CEO John Martin, the goal is "to ensure [Turner] is optimized" against strategic priorities, "reducing spending and maximizing growth and profitability." CapitalNewYork has more.

"Restaurant Startup," the newest addition to CNBC'S reality lineup, features restaurateur and TV personality Joe Bastianich and chef and restaurant operator Tim Love who vie to invest their own money in restaurant concepts. The first of eight one-hour episodes debuts July 8.

NBC News's Peacock Productions has signed a deal with forensic mind reader Colin Cloud to develop a series. Cloud, the self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes of entertainment, has left people convinced he can read minds and influence outcomes.

Consumer ebook market set to almost triple over next four years while PwC predicts sales of printed editions will fall

The ebook will overtake the paperback and hardback as Britons' preferred format for reading their favourite novels by 2018, according to a report. The UK consumer ebook market which excludes professional and educational books is forecast to almost triple from £380m to £1bn over the next four years.

Over the same period, accounting group PwC predicts that sales of printed editions will fall by more than a third to £912m as the UK population's reading habits become dominated by tablets, with 50% of the country expected to own an iPad, Kindle or a similar device by 2018.

A routine request in Florida for records detailing the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray turned extraordinary Tuesday when the U.S. Marshals Service seized the documents before local police could release them.

Fox News was the top cable news network for the week of May 26, placing seventh in primetime and ninth in total day among all ad-supported cable networks. FNC averaged 1,389,000 primetime viewers and and 864,000 total viewers.
MSNBC placed 35th in primetime and 34th in total day, averaging 482,000 viewers and 316,000 viewers, respectively. CNN placed 39th in primetime and 38th in total day, delivering 429,000 primetime viewers and 283,000 total day viewers,
ESPN, TNT, History Channel, NBCSN and USA were the top five cable networks in primetime for the week. The full ranker is after the jump. continued...

Jane Pauley will interview Hillary Clinton on "CBS Sunday Morning" on June 15 as part of Clinton's book tour for "Hard Choices." The CBS interview rounds out the big three broadcasters, as well as CNN and Fox News, that have confirmed interviews with the presumptive presidential candidate. So here's the order:

Not a fan of Google Glass’s ability to turn ordinary humans into invisibly recording surveillance cyborgs? Now you can create your own “glasshole-free zone.” Berlin artist Julian Oliver has written a simple program called Glasshole.sh that detects any Glass device attempting to connect to a Wi-Fi network based on a unique character string that he […]

Less than a year after launching its Shopping Express service in Silicon Valley and San Francisco--delivering retail products straight to homes on the same day they're ordered online--Google is muscling even farther into Amazon's territory, offering overnight delivery across Northern California.

Presented by If all apps were like Tinybop’s, we wouldn’t worry so much about our kids staring at screens. In fact, we might even encourage it. The 19-person Brooklyn outfit is focused on building a new class of education apps. Drawing inspiration from mid-century encyclopedias and the rich children’s media of the ’60s and ’70s, […]